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What does straight-laced mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.
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She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.
At points in your life you can view libraries as quite stuffy and straight-laced.
He plays a straight-laced risk assessor on honeymoon, who finds that his new wife takes a shine to the first beefcake she meets.
And to rigidly enforce the pink and blue boxes: the boring binary, straight-laced order.
Although the official site is comprehensive and impressive, it is straight-laced compared to the more flamboyant style of the fansite.
Boots and other shoes are generally straight-laced, which looser laces on Sambas.

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